Wagstadt district

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The German district of Wagstadt existed between 1938 and 1945. On January 1, 1945, it comprised two cities and 41 other communities.

The area of ​​the Wagstadt district had 57,120 inhabitants on December 1, 1930, 54,698 on May 17, 1939 and 45,710 on May 22, 1947.

Administrative history

Czechoslovakia / German occupation

Before the Munich Agreement of September 29, 1938, the political district of Bílovec belonged to Czechoslovakia .

In the period from October 1st to October 10th, 1938, German troops occupied this area. The political district of Bílovec from then on bore the former German-Austrian name Wagstadt . The political district of Wagstadt included the judicial districts of Königsberg and Wagstadt. Since November 20, 1938, the political district Wagstadt carried the designation "district". Until that day he was subordinate to the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch , as head of the military administration.

German Empire

On November 21, the Wagstadt district was formally incorporated into the German Reich and became part of the administrative district of the Sudeten German Territories under Reich Commissioner Konrad Henlein .

The town of Wagstadt became the seat of the district administration .

From April 15, 1939, the law on the structure of the administration in the Reichsgau Sudetenland (Sudetengaugesetz) came into force . Then the district of Wagstadt came to the Reichsgau Sudetenland and was assigned to the new district of Troppau .

On May 1, 1939, the partially cut districts in the Sudetenland were reorganized. Thereafter, the Wagstadt district was retained within its previous boundaries. He received the communities of Botenwald, Klantendorf and Schimmelsdorf from the district of Neu Titschein .

It remained in this state until the end of World War II.

Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic

From 1945 the area belonged to Czechoslovakia until its dissolution. Today it is part of the Czech Republic .

District Administrator

1939–1945: Hans Chmel

Local constitution

On the day before the formal incorporation into the German Reich, namely on November 20, 1938, all municipalities were subject to the German municipal code of January 30, 1935, which provided for the implementation of the Führer principle at the municipal level. From then on, the terms customary in the previous territory of the Reich were used, namely instead:

  • Local parish: Municipality,
  • Market town: market,
  • Municipality: City,
  • Political district: District.

Place names

The previous place names continued to apply, namely in the German-Austrian version from 1918.

cities and communes

Cities

  1. Koenigsberg
  2. Wagstadt

Communities

literature

  • Josef Bartoš, Jindřich Schulz, Miloš Trapl: Historický místopis Moravy a Slezska v letech 1848–1960. Sv. 14: okresy: Opava, Bílovec, Nový Jičín . Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, Olomouc 1995, ISBN 80-7067-583-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1942 in the city of Königsberg i. Silesia incorporated

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